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DOUGLAS J. GILLAN, Ph.D.

             Cary, NC                                                                        Office:  (919) 515-1715

             Born: December 29, 1951, Omaha, NE                             e-mail: djgillan@ncsu.edu   

I.  EDUCATION

Ph.D.          University of Texas (Austin, TX) 1978, Experimental Psychology

B.A.            Macalester College (St. Paul, MN) 1974, Psychology

II.  OVERVIEW OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2006-present   North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, Department of Psychology

Professor (7/2006 – present)

Department Head (7/2006 – 6/2016)

1994–2006   New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, Department of Psychology

Department Head (8/2001 – 7/2006)

Professor (8/2001 – 7/2006)

Associate Professor (7/’96 – 8/2001)

Assistant Professor (1/’94-7/’96)

1990-1994  University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, Department of Psychology

Associate Professor (7/’93-1/’94)                                         

Assistant Professor (8/’90-6/’93)

1987-1990  Rice University, Houston TX , Department of Psychology

Visiting Associate Professor (‘89-‘90), Adjunct Assistant Professor (‘87-‘89)

1984-1990  Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Co., Houston, TX, Human Factors

Consultant (‘89-’90)

Advanced System Engineering Specialist (‘87-‘89)

Engineering Supervisor (‘86-‘87)

Study Leader Space Station Development Project (‘85-‘87)

Senior Engineer (‘84-‘86)     

1980-1984  General Foods Technical Center, Tarrytown, NY, Sensory Evaluation Department

Project Specialist       

1979-1980  University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Department of Psychology

Cognitive Science Fellow      

1978-1979  Yale University, New Haven, CT, Department of Psychology

National Science Foundation Fellow

III.  TEACHING EXPERIENCE

A.  COURSES TAUGHT

Methods Courses:  Graduate Regression (12 times), Graduate Human Factors Methods (12 times), Undergraduate Experimental Methods (9 times)

Content Area Courses:  Perception (Undergraduate 16 times, Graduate 5 times), Learning (Undergraduate 15 times, Graduate 3 times), Engineering/Human Factors Psychology (13 times), Biological Psychology (Undergraduate 9 times, Graduate 1 time), Cognition (6 times), Introduction to Psychology (5 times), Evolutionary Psychology (Graduate 2 times), Information Visualization (Graduate 1 time), Primate Cognition (Graduate 1 time)

B.  MASTERS AND DOCTORAL COMMITTEES

Chair:  20 PhD students (6 active), 34 Masters students

Member:  50+ PhD and Masters committees

Doctoral Advisees Who Have Completed their PhDs:

Merrill Sapp (NMSU, 2007)

Jeffrey Smith (NCSU, 2012)

Jennifer Cowley (NCSU, 2013)

Rosemarie Yagoda (NCSU, 2013)

Wesley Wardlaw (NCSU, 2015)

Lixiao Huang (NCSU, 2016)

Caleb Furlough (NCSU, 2017)

Allaire Welk (NCSU, 2017)

Megan Frankosky (NCSU, 2017)

John Grishin (NCSU, 2018)

Thomas Stokes (NCSU, 2018)

Lawton Pybus (NCSU, 2018)

James Baker (NCSU, 2019)

C.  EVALUATION OF TEACHING

The overall mean student evaluation of my teaching is 3.80 on a 4.00 scale.  I have developed and tested a multiple regression model that uses three variables—the number of years that I have been teaching, the type of class (methodological or content), and the level of the class (undergraduate lower division, undergraduate upper division, and graduate) -- to predict the mean teaching evaluation for my courses.   The regression model for the three variables accounts for 63% of the variance in student evaluations: Evaluation = 2.56 + .05(Year) + .32(Course type) + .20(Level), with sr2’s = .21, .15, and .13, respectively, all p’s < .01)  So, the more years that I have taught, the higher the evaluations (this seems to be a general improvement in teaching because the number of times that I have taught a specific course is not a significant predictor of student evaluations for that course); content courses tend to get higher evaluations than methods courses (by .32 points on average), and graduate and upper division undergraduate courses tend to give higher evaluations than lower division undergraduate courses. The correlation between the model-predicted and actual evaluations is .9997.

IV.  ADMINSTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

Academic Department Head (2001 – 2016)

Responsible for overseeing instructional, financial, and research operations of Psychology Departments with up to 33 faculty, $4 million instructional budget, over $1 million in external research funding.

Chair of Graduate Committee (1998 – 2001)

Responsible for recruitment and admission of graduate students, identifying sources of graduate student support, assigning graduate students to teaching assistantships.

Section Supervisor at Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Company (1986 – 1987)

Work involved hiring and managing researchers working with NASA-JSC in human factors, monitoring quality of research work, maintaining funding for research laboratories.

Grant Management (1987 – 2016)

Awarded and managed research grants totaling more than $6 million.  Funding sources include NASA, NSF, Army Research Laboratory, CECOM, Office of Naval Research, as well as industrial organizations.

V.  AWARDS

Fellow, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Sloan Foundation Cognitive Science Postdoctoral Fellowship

National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship

University of Texas Graduate Fellowship

Rhodes Scholarship Finalist

Phi Beta Kappa

VI. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

•  Editorial Board –Journal of Usability Studies (2010 – present)

•  Associate Editor -- Human Factors (2010 – 2014)

•  Ad hoc reviewer for numerous other journals and books

•  Reviewer for HFES Conference and ACM SIGCHI Conference

•  Service Committees: Ely Award Committee, Government Relations Committee, Paul M. Fitts Education Award Subcommittee Chair (all Human Factors and Ergonomics Society)